This is absolutely awesome! February 2006–wait for it🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀#ThrowbackThursday #TBT
Diggin what Dan Instagrammed/tweeted
Noticed Jason McElwain in a lot of pics w Bush.
Then I saw this. Bush holding his head on a stick.It kind of made me mad .
It was strange I found it when I searched: Jason McElwain trump
Anyone got a linked in acct to see the letter from Trump?
Bush on the stump for Medicare drug program
March 14, 2006
CANANDAIGUA, N.Y. – President Bush campaigned Tuesday to boost the troubled new Medicare drug program that is the subject of a fierce election-year debate between Democrats and Republicans.
Bush pleaded with older Americans a key voting block, particularly in midterm congressional elections to look positively on the new benefit. Under the program, the government subsidizes medication costs for the elderly and disabled through plans created by private insurers.
In effect since January, it has been under fire from Democrats as too confusing for seniors with its numerous plans and coverage gaps – and from some conservative Republicans as an overly costly expansion of government.
But Bush said seniors, particularly those on the lower end of the income scale, should at least explore the options and consider enrolling before a May 15 deadline ushers in higher premiums.
"I think you're going to like what you see," the president said from a public high school gym in this conservative-leaning western New York community. "The key is saving a little money in retirement."
During a 35-minute discussion with a panel assembled by the White House, Bush acknowledged problems early on, when errors left many temporarily without coverage.
But he said the program is providing 50 percent reductions in drug costs for the average elderly patient, and significantly higher savings for lower-income seniors. And, he said, the introduction of choice though bewildering at first is also helping the 26 million who have enrolled so far to benefit from higher quality.
Bush also argued the program is proving less expensive than anticipated.
Federal spending on the drug benefit will be 20 percent lower in 2006 than was estimated last summer, due to competition and the wider availability of generic drugs, according to the White House.
"It's working," Bush said. "It makes a lot of sense."
Later, Bush visited Ferris Hills at West Lake, a seniors residence. He was supposed to be there during a Medicare education session for residents, but weather forced a schedule rearrangement that had him arriving about 90 minutes late, after the program was completed. So Bush was left briefly greeting a few seniors who waited for him in common rooms.
He perhaps unwittingly used language recalling a famous Democratic anti-poverty initiative, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal of the 1930s.
"Everybody explaining Medicare to you – the new deal?" Bush asked a crowd in one room. "I hope so. It's worth looking at."
Later Tuesday, back at the White House, the president was also meeting with representatives from groups that have been holding education and enrollment sessions around the country.
It was the first of two straight days Bush was devoting to the program. Today he is delivering a Medicare speech at an assisted-living facility in Silver Spring, Md., a Washington suburb.
The renewed presidential attention reflects the issue's high stakes in a year when most of Congress is up for re-election and Bush wants to help his party retain control of both chambers.
"The Medicare drug program has been a nightmare for America's seniors and is clear evidence of the Bush administration's shocking incompetence," Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., said.
Democrats favored benefits provided directly by the government rather than through private companies and hope to make the program a liability for Republicans.
Americans United, a group with close ties to congressional Democrats, intends to use polling, television advertisements and public events to campaign against the benefit.
While in New York, Bush met Jason McElwain, the autistic basketball team manager who drew national cheers by scoring 20 points in four minutes for his suburban Rochester high school team.
The president also met relatives of five U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq and elsewhere.
https://www.seattlepi.com/national/article/Bush-on-the-stump-for-Medicare-drug-program-1198419.php
lyrically it reminds me of Grimes - We Appreciate Power song.
We appreciate power, power
What will it take to make you capitulate?
We appreciate power
We appreciate power
Elevate the human race, putting makeup on my face
We appreciate power
We appreciate power, power
Simulation, give me something good
God's creation, so misunderstood
Pray to the divinity, the keeper of the key
One day everyone will believe
What will it take to make you capitulate?
We appreciate power
We appreciate power
When will the state agree to cooperate?
We appreciate power
We appreciate power, power
People like to say that we're insane
But AI will reward us when it reigns
Pledge allegiance to the world's most powerful computer
Simulation: it's the future
What will it take to make you capitulate?
We appreciate power
We appreciate power
Elevate the human race, putting makeup on my face
We appreciate power
We appreciate power, power
And if you long to never die
Baby, plug in, upload your mind
Come on, you're not even alive
If you're not backed up on a drive
And if you long to never die
Baby, plug in, upload your mind
Come on, you're not even alive
If you're not backed up, backed up on a drive
What will it take to make you capitulate?
We appreciate power
We appreciate power
Elevate the human race, putting makeup on my face
We appreciate power
We appreciate power
What will it take to make you capitulate?
We appreciate power
We appreciate power
When will the state agree to cooperate?
We appreciate power
Neanderthal to human being
Evolution, kill the gene
Biology is superficial
Intelligence is artificial
Submit
@2:30+ that Muse song reminds me of the Knight Rider theme.
Noticed #deepfake , #deepfakes trending on twitter
https://twitter.com/search?lang=en&q=%23deepfake
Goes with Hunter trending and Biden Jr.'s malarkey yesterday.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-mocked-sexual-exploitation-comment-twitter-users-hunter-biden
PRESIDENT OBAMA'S PICKS!
March Madness is back—and so is our annual tradition of sharing President Obama’s brackets! Check out the President’s picks for the Men’s and Women’s NCAA Basketball Championship below.
This tournament, we’re also introducing something new. We’re thrilled that a group of promising young men from Chicago will represent the My Brother’s Keeper Alliance in New Orleans for the men’s Final Four—job shadowing the folks at Turner Sports and receiving invaluable, hands-on experience.
So while you’re enjoying elite college athletes on the court, think about the opportunity these young men will have to learn from the skilled production crews and operations personnel making it all happen off the court.
https://www.obama.org/2022-ncaa/
It’s been a great year for college basketball, and now #MarchMadness is officially back. I’m excited for some of the young men in our
@MBK_Alliance
to join the action in New Orleans. Here's a look at my picks:
https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1504185850631970833